II. Psychiatry in Denmark in 1983

Declining interest in forensic psychiatry: recent developments in Denmark.

It is postulated that there is a declining interest in forensic psychiatry in some countries, e.g. in Denmark. Can this decline be conclusively demonstrated? If so, what are the explanations? It is postulated that it is due not to decreasing interest on the part of psychiatrists, but to a change in attitude on the part of those who run the judicial system. It is further maintained that the esse...

Pharmacogenomics approach in psychiatry disorders

Psychiatric disorders are important health issues in the world, and their management is facing some serious challenges. Drugs that are widely used in the treatment of psychiatric disorders, including antidepressants, antipsychotics, and mood stabilizers, are often associated with many side effects and are adequately effective only in a small proportion of patients. Many factors, including genet...

History of Contemporary Cultural Psychiatry in Iran:

Cultural psychiatry is one of the relatively new trends in psychiatry that has received much attention today. During the last century, many Iranian psychiatrists have taken steps to introduce various aspects of cultural psychiatry from the field of epidemiology to the cultural conceptualization of psychiatric disorders. This article tries to refer to the history of contemporary cultural psychia...

Psychiatry and the Community, II

In October 1951, we were again approached by the University of Glasgow Extra-mural Education Committee to organise another course of Mental Health lectures. Although it was felt that this would not be very successful, we were persuaded to organise one on a less ambitious scale with a syllabus designed to meet the needs of a small body of advanced students. As in the previous Course the writer a...

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